open-metadata

    open-metadata/OpenMetadata

    #311 this week

    The Open Context Layer for Data and AI , OpenMetadata is the open platform for building trusted data context and business semantics for humans, AI assistants, and agents.

    monitoring
    context
    context-layer
    data-catalog
    data-collaboration
    data-contracts
    TypeScript
    Apache-2.0
    15.6K stars
    2.5K forks
    15.6K GitHub watchers
    Updated Oct 31, 2026
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    Where it stands

    Rank, growth pace and release cadence relative to everything GStars tracks.

    Ranks #311 of 518 repositories GStars tracks this week (top 60%).

    5 releases in the last 90 days, the latest 3 days ago, with 426 contributors on GitHub.

    The biggest single-day gain in the last year, +784 stars on Apr 23, coincided with release 1.12.6-release.

    Use Cases & Benefits

    • Provides a unified metadata platform for data discovery, governance, lineage, and collaboration across data assets and AI systems.
    • Enables end-to-end metadata management with extensive connectors and a central metadata repository for seamless integration and automation.
    • Use for building a centralized data catalog to improve data discovery and accessibility across diverse data sources.
    • Use for enforcing data governance policies and automating data classification to maintain compliance and data quality standards.
    • Use for monitoring data health and lineage to ensure data reliability and facilitate troubleshooting in complex data pipelines.

    Should you depend on it?

    License terms, project hygiene and risks, from GitHub metadata and GStars' snapshots.

    License

    Apache 2.0

    Permissive: commercial use, modification and redistribution are allowed with attribution; includes an explicit patent grant from contributors.

    Community files

    • README: present
    • Contributing guide: present
    • Code of conduct: present

    Watch-outs

    No watch-outs from GStars' checks.

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    From the README

    Empower your Data Journey with OpenMetadata

    OpenMetadata is a unified metadata platform for data discovery, data observability, and data governance powered by a central metadata repository, in-depth column-level lineage, and seamless team collaboration. It is one of the fastest-growing open-source projects with a vibrant community and adoption by a diverse set of companies in a variety of industry verticals. Based on Open Metadata Standards and APIs, supporting connectors to a wide range of data services, OpenMetadata enables end-to-end metadata management, giving you the freedom to unlock the value of your data assets.

    Data Discovery: Find and explore all your data assets in a single place using various strategies, such as keyword search, data associations, and advanced queries. You can search across tables, topics, dashboards, pipelines, and services.

    Data Collaboration: Communicate, converse, and cooperate with other users and teams on data assets. You can get event notifications, send alerts, add announcements, create tasks, and use conversation threads.

    Data Quality and Profiler: Measure and monitor the quality with no-code to build trust in your data. You can define and run data quality tests, group them into test suites, and view the results in an interactive dashboard. With powerful collaboration, make data quality a shared responsibility in your organization.

    Excerpt from the open-metadata/OpenMetadata README on GitHub (Apache-2.0 license). © its authors.Read the full README on GitHub

    Daily snapshots

    Stars gained per day, and how forks and open issues moved, from GStars' daily snapshots

    Aug 8: +52Aug 9: +16Sep 3: +9

    +912 stars over 86 days across 10 snapshot days; best day +52 on Aug 8.

    Forks

    2.5K+198

    Open issues

    983+1

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